*sxado/nas: ta\ tw=n khfh/nwn khri/a: kai\ zw=|on a)/pteron, a)/poun.
The headword, perhaps quoted from somewhere (but see next note), is a feminine noun in the accusative plural; see generally LSJ s.v.
sxadw/n (also with accent on the penult:
sxa/dwn),
bee larva or
honey-cell. The headword form occurs at
Aristotle,
History of Animals 554a15 and 627a30, but there is an earlier instance in
Aristophanes (fr. 569 Kock/Edmonds; quoted in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 9.372C [9.14 Kaibel]).
[1] The initial gloss follows the
scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.147a (s.v.
sxado/nwn, genitive plural form), from which the entry was probably generated.
[2] The lemma is glossed identically in
Photius (
Lexicon sigma889 Theodoridis), and similarly elsewhere:
Hesychius sigma2949 (s.v.
sxado/nes, i.e. nominative plural),
Synagoge sigma418 (s.v.
sxado/na, i.e. accusative singular),
Etymologicum Magnum 739.42 (Kallierges), and ps.-
Zonaras 1699.7. See also
Pollux 1.254, 7.148.
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